PS101 Lecture Notes - Penis Envy, Nicotine, Borderline Personality Disorder
Document Summary
Personality: a distinctive pattern of behaviour, mannerisms, thoughts, motives and emotions that characterize and individual over time and across different situations. Psychoanalysis: personality theory that emphasizes unconscious motives and conflicts. Psychodynamic theories: theories that explain behaviour and personality in terms of unconscious energy dynamics within the individual. Unconscious motives, passions, guilty secrets unspeakable yearnings, and conflicts between desire and duty have far more power over personality than our conscious intentions. The unconscious reveals itself in art, dreams, jokes, apparent accidents and slips of the tongue freudian slip . The id: contains inherited psychic energy, sexual/life (fuelled by libido) and death/aggressive instincts motto: avoid pain, obtain pleasure. May discharge tension in reflex actions, physical symptoms, uncensored mental images, unbidden thoughts. The ego: represents reason, good sense and rational self-control. Bows to realities of life, puts rein on i"d desire for sex/aggression until there is a socially appropriate outlet for them.
